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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
Grecian Dudes.

One of the biggest surprises in neither
garments the whole world round is worn
by the Grecian dudes one sees on the
streets of Constantinople. Imagine a
sky-blue silken balloon, bottom side up
and fastened round the wearer's waist,
two Leat-ftting leg-holes made in the
bulge, and the whole bulb collapsed and
swaddled about the legs when walking,
and you can imagine the lower story of
Greek dude.
His trunk is enveloped in a tight-fit-
ting jacket of some other shade of blue,
with loose flowing sleeves and white fur
bellows showing underneath. His head
is adorned with a greek fez, from which
an enormous black or blue tassel hangs
down his back. This ornamental APP.
pendage looks as if ever on the eve of
pulling the fez off the wearer's head by
its great weight He wears the ordinary
brogans and socks and sometimes leav es
the calves of his legs bare.
Sometimes the Greek dude carries
cane, but he carries it for use quite as
much as for ornament; or, at all events,
walks with it in a bus.ness-like manner.
He walks with gait awkward and un-
graceful, but even were he naturally
graceful walker his ungainly neither gar
ment imparts to him a decidedly gro
tesque appearance.
The chief delight of the Greek dude
is to sit in front of Hallway shop, smoke
nargilehs and watch the ladies pass by.
Those of his own nationality are wearing
garments but slightly different from his
own, the footholes in the inverted bal
loon being nearer the bottom, but that
is about all.-Pittsburg Commercial
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

with a more tenderly sweet expression
than In the old time. Two feeble white
haired old men were pretending to play
chess on The other side. The room was
small, bari, ,>eomfortless but there was
at least love and contentment. The old
men were harmless, the girl was tender
and patient, and she worked with all her
might to supply their few and simple
wants. She had worked for them for
ten years-ever since Mr.. Dalton and his
chief clerk, Michael Anger, left West
wood, ruined indeed but not disgraced;
ever since that dreadful day when Philip
Wynne heartlessly said they were both
mistaken, and escaped with his partner,
Robert Driver, the author of their ruin.
Suddenly their came a loud knock at
the door, and without waiting for
reply, the latch was raised, and Jack
Hardy entered the shabby little room.
''My darling, l have found you'll l
am not too late, !" he cried clasping Ag-
mes in his strong arms "Tell me it is
not too late"
''No, it is not too late, Agnes sobbed.
81 have found out"
"That we were both mistaken, my
darling; /, in daring to think was
worthy of your love; you, in thinking 1
never would be; but let us forget the
past and begin again"
''But my father and Michaell"
"Your father will always be my father,
dear, and Michael will always be my
dear old friend. The world has gone
well with me during the last ten years;
and now to find you again, and willing
to share my good fortune, have nothing
left to wish for. am not even sure that
l am sorry Yswere both mistaken long
ago.s Happiness won by waiting is not
only sweet, but sure. THE Quicer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
Photographs ON Watch Cases.

"What charming facet
Eyes. l rather flatter myself it is. 1t
is a photograph of my wife"
'lIow did you ever manage TO have it
photographed on the inside of your
watch cover" inquired the reporter.
That is not very hard 10 do, if you
only know how" replied the ieweler.
A new process has been invented; en-
amel on which II photograph has been
transferred is fitted perfectly on the sur
face of the case. 1t can be successfully
done no other way, and is an immense
improvement over the old way of put
ting the paper negative of photograph
in watch case. 1t is even a neater de-
vice than to photograph in miniature the
face directly on the metal, besides being
much cheaper. Mail and Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
The Gait Of CrimInaIs.

A curious study has been made by DIR.
Peracchia of the difference between Grim
inals and law-abiding citizens, as ex-
hibited by their walk. The author first
made number of observations to deter
mine the conditions of normal progress
sion, and found that in good people the
right pace is longer than the left, the la
teral separation of the right foot from
the median line is less than that of the
left, and the angle of deviation Of the
axis of the foot from straight line is
greater on the right side than on the
left.
But this is not all. DIR. Peracchia has
not only shown us how we may distin-
guish criminals in general, but has laid
the beginnings of the diiferential dag
nosis between various sorts of eyil-doers.
The following are the distinguishing
characteristics which his observations
have enabled him to formulate:
|. Thieves. In those who are predis-
posed to appropriate the property of 9TH
ers there is a pronounced widening of the
base of support together with very
long step.
.. Assassins. In those who have murder
in their hearts the base Of support is not
as wide as it is in thieves, since the angle
formed by the axis of the foot with the
median line is less obtuse but the sinis-
trality betrayed by their footprints is
very marked.
These discoveries are of very inter
esting character, and if the criminal could
be induced TO walk before the honest
man, instead of following him as he usu-
ally does. they might also be put to
practical use, for then good citizens could
diagnose the rogue by his tracks, and
might thus be enabled TO escape robbery,
or assassination, as the case might be. =
Medical Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
Occupation in Ceylon.

The wayside villages of the maritime
districts of Ceylon are, as a rule, exceed
ingly neatly kept, and the trade carried
on by their inhaitants is sultic c'eutly
profitable to enable them 20 lead lives of
comparative comfort, as compared with
many of the village cultiyators of the
interior, who frequently, during I'M
favorable seasons, find il extremely diff
cult to support life. Along the line of
the seacoast fishing provides for the daily
wants of very many of the people, while
the families of others among them find
occupation in the preparation of the
fibres of the outer husk of the co oanut,
for making into coarse yarn and rope,
use to which they are very generally ap-
piled The distilhtion of arrack from
the Juice of the palm tree also affords
employment to thousands Of villagers
along the seacoast, where the tree
flouishes with but little cultivation. ~
Art Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

A Matter OF Taste.

A scientific journal has an article
headed; ''How to Taste" We haven't
had time to read it, but our own idea is
that it depends great deal ON what you
are going to taste. If it is quinine or
or castor oil or anything of that sort it
won't require any previous training or a
university education to enable you to
taste all you want of it in one brief
hasty swallow. But if it is something
real good something that you like better
and get less of than any other man in
America, you want a neck yard long,
full of all sorts of back stops and hampers
all the way down. That is the theory
of an unlettered man who tastes by main
strength and natural selection, and if
Science thinks she has better way we'd
like to trot her one heat, anyhow, just for
fun. n.-Burdette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Alta recent meeting held in Alexandria,
Virginia, to further the. project TO build
grand avenue from Washington to
Mount Vernon, it was explained that the
proposed avenue would run for two
mile through the Arlington property,
and that it was expected that the Govern
ment would construct at least that
portion. The various states would be
asked to send trees to be planted in the
parking along the borders of Mount
Vernon avenue, and it is hoped that the
thirteen original States would be sufii-
ciently interested to place in life form,
in bronze or marble, the signers of the
Declaration or Independence.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
A Husbands Mistake.

One of the most pathetic incidents of
the Exeter Theatre fire lin England) was
the rescue of woman, who was carried
out of the furnace of flame upon the back
of brave man. He was with his wife
at the play when the fire broke out and
succeeded in dragging her part way TO
the door, where she fell. There was an
instant of despair and bewilderment;
and then he snatched a covering form
from the floor in the dense crowd and
struggled through the smoke and dark
ness to reach the street with shrieking
woman on his back. At last he was out
of danger and breathlessly lowered his
burden. Alas ii was not his wife. In
the confusion and darkness he had res
cued stranger and left his wife 70 be
trampled to death in the lobbles of the
theatre, ,-Ne,0 YOrk Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
~wrLL HE COME"

The sun has lit the wood and set;
With heavy dews the grass Is wets
The frs stand out in silhouette,
Sharp, tall and Silly;
Sometimes rabbit fits in sight,
A scampering whisk-a CLEAN Of white;
Naught else. Her scarf she gathers tight
The air is chilly.
The belfry-clock strikes slowiy-eight-
"Ah, waning love makes trysters late;
Slack suitor he whose queen may waltz
She stops and listens;
A dead leaf rustled-that was ALI
Well, maiden pride will come at CALI
She will not let the teardrop fall
II stands and glstens.
She turns-but harkl the step she knows
The branches part and, swinging, close;
What penance now on him impose
The tryst who missesl
She can't be hard, though sore she tries,
For love viii melt through loving eyes,
And all the chiding words that rise
Are crushed with kisses.
-CasssUs Magazine
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Professor f. E. Boynton says in the
Popalqr Science Monthly that a region Of
country twenty miles in diameter, where
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia come together, ''contains more
interesting and rare plants than can be
found in any spot in the United States
occupying the same area" He calls the
district "a botanical bonanza
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

' A newspaper in Illinois recently
brought suit itagainst forty-three men who
would not pay their subscription, and
obtained judgment in each for full
amount OF the claim. OF these, twenty
eight men made affidavits that they owned
no more property than the law allowed
them, thus preventing attachment Then
they, under the decision of the Supreme
Court, were arrested for petty larceny,
and bound over in the sum of $500 each.
All but six gave bonds, while six went
TO Jail. 1t makes no difference to what
part of the continent the paper goes, a
bin sent to the Postmaster, Justice of
the Peace or any United States officer
can be collected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

"The United States not only continue
their work of feeding the rest of the
world-they steadily increase the amount
Of that work, says the Philadelphia
Telegraph "For the ten months ending
August 81 the exports OF beef and pork
exceeded by 50, 600, 600 the exports of
the same kind in the same period in 1886.
The total was $65, 500, 600 or a ratio of
over $40, 600, 600 year. The wonder of
this thing is beyond parallel, and it may
well claim Il passing thought in these
days of reflection upon the greatness, the
growth and the illimitable future CT the
republic. Hero is the contribution of the
United States to the dinner table of the
world in only twoSrticles of food con-
sumption. All other meats than beef and
pork 20 to SWELL the enormous total as
do breadstutfs, fruits and vegetables,
canned goods, etc. We not only feed
ourselves more nourishingly and amply
than any other people are fed, but we
sead these hundreds of millions worth OF
food yearly to the markets OF other ma.
tions. No other country does such
work, nor in all story has it been done.
Who gould possibly have foretold such
a ia'e, surprising any Arabian Night
marvel, 100 years asog"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

A birmingham Conn. electrician has a
new rat-trap, which, it is said, works
admirably. lie attaches piece OF meat
TO one pole Of a dynamo machine, which
can only be reached by the rat by stand.
ing ON plate which serves as the other
pole. Report says that no rat has yet
got the meat, but many have reached foi
II, and the inventor is rewarded for his
Ingenuity by large collection of dead
rats
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
HuMOR OF THE DAY.

There may be nothing new in this
world, but there's heap that's fresh
Tid-B Bits.
Gamblers are said to frequent ocean
steamers because gulls are very thick az
sea.-LVe.
Talk is cheap. The man who talks too
much gets so liberal that he gives him
self away. Baltimore american.
There is about as much spring in tho
Waterbury watch as there is in two years
in New England. .-SomerUille journal.
The girl who hooks fish will shrek
To see its frantic wriggles;
But when she hooks a man-queer freak
She simply grins and giggles.
-Chd1iestoion Enterprise.
The woman who marries an i'll
tempered husband is right in thinking
that she has struck Lucifer match
Merchant IrdDeLer
1t is said that the Empress Josephine
had thirty-eight bonnets in one month.
No wonder the whole family failed IN
business Burlington Free Press.
DR.. Torsey, of Boston, marries pair
in eighty seconds. There are many
young persons who would like to make
minute of this. Courier Journal.
THE NoN-ADvERTIsER.
The man who does not advertise
Displays as much good sense
As the man who dons his Sunday pants
To climb barbed wire fence.
calm high" is the Savannah Netos's
advice to young men. This is the same
old chestnut the girl sprung on the fell
low who kissed her on the chin. n.--Nash-
vile American.
A New England man has just had a
patent granted to him for San electric
switch" 1t is expected that all the boys
of the country will rise up in vehement
protest. Boston Post.
The minstrel shows on deck again
And the end men are chatting,
And the jokes that tickled old Adam and Eve
Again set the audience laughing
Boston Courier.
The latest and most wonderful cure
effected by patent medicine recorded is
the following: "a boy had swallowed
a silver dollar. An hour afterward the
boy threw up the dollar, ell in small
change, principally dime pieces. "-lSt.
Louis Mdgdzine.
A young 4adyjp Missouri has a aollee.
ton of 1868 spo6is. T1fin4 ho66y J.
far ahead of the crazy quilt mania, and
more useful than decorating china with
flowers unknown to botanic science. The
young man who shall link his destiny
with this girl will have soft snap on
kindling wood.-B0stOR Globe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Thomas A. Edison, the famous invent
or, may spend the winter in California.
u is reported that he will build winter
home at Thermalito, Butte County, Cal,
and erect fine laboratory. For several
years he has been experimenting with
specimens Of the black sand deposit
found in that country, endeavoring to
extract gold therefrom.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
North dmeri,an calls attention to the fact
that Franklin's grave, at Fifth and Arch
streets, is in neglected condition. He
suggests the propriety of putting it in
proper shape, tho more particularly as
DIR. franklin was delegate 10 the Con-
stitutional Convention in 1887.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Even the nationality of Shakespeare
docs not appear to be safe in these days
Of fantastic speculation. Frenchman
Is said to be writing book which will
show that the bard of Avon was of French
descent and his name was originally
<daques Pierre, or, in plain English, John
Peter
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Canada is asked to graut an annual
subsidy Of 5000, 900 for fifty years in aid
Ct the proposed subway connecting
Prince Edward Island with the main.
land, the first cost being estimated at
IS, 000,0 900. The tunnel is to be seven
OF eight miles long, and, doubtless, will
cost more than the original figure.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
soNo.

Go not, o perfect Day
o Day 30 beautiful, so golden-bright.
A little longer stayl
Soon in thy western window fades the light;
Soon comes the Night
Delay
Go not, o perfect Dayi
Go not, dear Life, awayl
Dear Life, ones cheerful friend and guest Of
yore,
A little longer stay
Soon wilt thou steal from u.s. and shut the
door,
And come no morei
Delay
Go not, dear Life, away
--Ro5ert TrotUbrid0c, in Lippincotcs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Carl schurz says of newspaper men
that they ''arc the guardians of truth and
personal liberty.n This, the New York
World remarks, is the best thing Mr..
Schurz ever said.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

The Boston Globe has discovered that
in ak Eastern States there are now Twin
$500 people more than eighty years of
age. IN the aggregate these long lived
down casters" have lived more than
$50, 600 years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
An ApprOprIate Suggestlon.

"What does your father call that dog
of his" asked II young travelling man
of the young lady upon whom he was
calling.
"Towser," was the reply
II wonder why nc didn't name him
Trouser instead" was the reioinder.
''He is certainly the most perfec ly
developed specimen OF trouser-dog it was
ever M privilege to meet. - Merchant
TrGceier
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
Cost Of Raising a Boy.

''My father never did anything for
me, is an observation which is frequently
heard from the lips of young men, but in
most cases little reflection would con-
vince the speaker that he is making a
serious error. A recent writer, hearing
the remark uttered by a young fellow
whose education, as the phrase goes, had
just been completed, and who was look
ing around him to find an opening in
business, took the trouble to estimate
the cost of bringing up the said young
fellow from his birth, which had been
betrayed, of course, by the parent referred
to in such sighting way. These are
his figures
800 per year for the first five years 49,. $500
$50 per year for the second five years. $50
800 per year for the third five years. . 900
$500 per year for the next three wears 500
$500 per year for the next tive years. :. 600
Total. 81, ,15O
With few notifications, these figures
may be taken to represent the average
expense entailed in raising an ordinary
boy. Many parents spend several times
as much. Itwould certainly be well for
young men who take all this as a matter
of course, and think that their fathers
have done nothing for them, to reflect
that they owe heavy debt of gratitude
to those that have brought them up from
helpless infancy and equipped them to
fight for themselves the battle of life
Golden ArQOsy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

A Jackson, Mich, mmufacturer is
shipping wagons to Austr llia
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02

Ten years passed. Agnes Dalton was
sitting by the fire in the dreary twilight
O. a February gay, older grown, bur
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-29
The colonel pastors OF the ptstnct VINO hal

The colored pastors of the District who have
signed a document In the nature OF protest
against the rejection OF Matthews as recorder OF
deeds ignore the breach OF democratic pledges
made TO them citizens OF the District, while en-
phasizing the vague suggestion OF apromise made
TO them as freedmen 1t seems to be taken for
granted that men who are merely District citizens
have not, as such, rights which any one is bound
to respect, that pledges made to them merely in
that capacity may be broken with impunity and
without exciting surprise comment, and that
1t Is foolish TO expect the consciousness OF Dis
tricC citizenship TO elevate ones actions
above the level OF color or class prejudice.
The promise to appoint District and territorial
citizens to District and territorial Offices spe-
1ne and these pastors stab District interests and
sacrifice their rights District citizens In the at
tempt to obtain democratic and political recogni-
ton as freedmen. This sacrifice Is not merely fool
ish but unnecessary. II the pastors were little
better yersed in the affairs OF this world they
would see the advantage OF recognizing the fact
that Matthews was rejected because he was not
citizen OF the District, and not because he was
colored man. On this basis they could de-
mand from the democratic parry q fulfilment
OF both its pledges, and sthe appointment of
Of some one who Is both District citizen and a
colored man, with the strong prospect OF confirma
ton by republican Senate. But by hastily and
excitedly claiming that Matthews sis prosecuted
politically on account OF the accident OF color"
and Is rejected because identified with the negro
race they enable the President 10 say that it is
useless TO appoint another colOred man to the
position in view of the Senates action, and make
1t easy for him to import some white outsider to
put In charge OF this local Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-29

The jury-nxers are at work again In Justice Bar
retrs court In New York city, where ex-Aldermar
VNeh Is on trial as a member OF the Broadway
railroad Doodle gang. II is becoming 50 common
Ior )urymen TO be approached, that one VINO votes
Ior the acquittal OF a prisoner after the proSecu
s1oh mas mace out any sort OF a case lays himself
open 70 suspicion, just or unjust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-29

The lawsuit brought by an assembly of Knights
OF Labor IN Baltimore against a firm of tin-ean
manufacturers there for twenty thousand dollars
damages for breach OF contract, deserves more
than passing notice. 1t is the most startling out
come OF the aggressive policy adopted by the
Knights within the last twelve months The de-
mand is based on the fact that the firm contracted
10 pay the common scale OF prices for labor
from April 1, 1856, TO April i, 1887, but failed
10 do so, and thus threw out of employment
n large number OF men whose support be-
came burden on the SOciety's treasury
IL is hardly 10 be supposed that the suit
was brought without due elaboration and ade-
quate legal counsel and it is to be hoped that the
issue Will be fairly tried and decided on its merits
There Is danger OF course that the may be dis
missed on technical ruling that an action could
not lie until the default was complete-in other
words, till the full year had passed Or there may
be evidence that the idleneSs of the men was not
compulsory, or that the contract between the
firm and the Knights was too loosely drawn to be
enforceable. The tnterpos1tion OF such pleas
would imperil the decision OF the main question,
and possibly rob the labor unions and the rest of
the community of solution of most interesting
and important problem. In these days when the
vorkingmens organizations are struggling for
corporate recognition, definition of their right
TO make and enforce contracts for individual ser
vices Is greatly to be desired.